Last Name LUNA

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Spanish, Greek, Chilean, Romanian, Haitian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Pakistani

Rank	378 (2000 US census)	492 (1990 US census)

Count	76,127 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

9.78%, or 7445 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.37%, or 282 total occurrences, as black,
2%, or 1523 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.58%, or 442 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.7%, or 533 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
86.58%, or 65911 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

American Surnames

One could claim that American surnames are very straightforward to describe and identify. Due to the way this country was formed, having people coming here from all over the world, the surnames simply represent all those people of different nationalities. So, we are don...